awestruck - Story 12998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news anchor on TV was discussing the latest trends in higher education, and then, inexplicably, she began to read from a college essay. He sat up, his body tensing, his grip tightening on the remote. It was his. He knew it.

A cold shiver crawled down his spine. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to cover his ears, but he didn't move. He was glued to the screen, trapped. The words, once so personal, now echoed in the vast emptiness of his living room.

He struggled to breathe. He felt exposed, naked, vulnerable. He was sure everyone he knew would be watching.

Emotion: awestruck

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): -0.17 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.20

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion awestruck. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 awestruck stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the awestruck emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the awestruck vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`L`	0.271
`suddenly`	0.260
`stranger`	0.252
`plötzlich`	0.246
`wonder`	0.242

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.450
`싶`	-0.350
`K`	-0.319
`rest`	-0.248
`싶은`	-0.238